Civilian Inmate Labor Program

Labor programs set forth by the Civilian Inmate Labor Program regulation involve the use of minimum and low-security inmates from facilities under the control of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, with a few apparent exceptions for state-held and locally-held inmates, on installations controlled by the Army. Army Regulation 210-35 outlines two purposes for this docket:

1. Provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations.{{cite web |url=http://www.apfn.org/pdf/prison_camps.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-08-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007211247/http://www.apfn.org/pdf/prison_camps.pdf |archivedate=7 October 2016 }}
2. Discusses sources of federal and state civilian inmate labor.{{cite web|url=http://www.slideshare.net/global-currency-reset/us-army-civilian-inmate-labor-program-regulation-210-35-pdf |title=U.S. Army Civilian Inmate Labor Program Regulation 210 35 PDF |date=28 August 2016 |accessdate=2016-08-28 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829031632/http://www.slideshare.net/global-currency-reset/us-army-civilian-inmate-labor-program-regulation-210-35-pdf |archivedate=29 August 2016}}

The regulation states that labor programs benefit the Army and the corrections facilities by supplying "a source of labor at no direct cost to the Army", giving "meaningful work to inmates" and alleviation to "overcrowding in nearby corrections facilities" and by making use of otherwise unused land and buildings.

The statement of purpose of the regulation is as such:{{cite web |url=https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/R210_35.PDF |title=Archived copy |website=armypubs.army.mil |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215155945/http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/R210_35.PDF |archive-date=15 December 2010 |url-status=live}}

This policy provides army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations. Sources of civilian inmate labor are limited to:

1. On- and off-post federal corrections facilities
2. State and/or local corrections facilities operating from on-post prison camps pursuant to leases under section 2667, title 10, United States Code, allowing for any residents of camps deemed by the secretary of defense to promote the public interest or be a matter of national security to be used for this program.
3. Off-post facilities participating in the demonstration project authorized under Section 1065, Public Law (PL) 103–337, otherwise state and/or local inmate labor from off-post corrections facilities is currently excluded from this program.

The regulation indicates that the inmates could perform labor as allowed by 18 USC 4125(A).{{cite web

|url=http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/Title_18.txt

|title=18 USC TITLE 18 – CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

|accessdate=9 March 2006

|year=2001

|format=text

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301092047/http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/Title_18.txt

|archive-date=1 March 2006

|url-status=dead

}}

The regulation also sets forth policy for the creation of prison camps on Army installations. These would be used to keep inmates of the labor programs resident on the installations.

In January 2006, Kellogg, Brown and Root reported that they had received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to expand ICE DRO facilities "in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."{{cite web

|url=http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B62C8724D%2DAE8A%2D4B5C%2D94C7%2D70171315C0A0%7D&dist=SignInArchive¶m=archive&siteid=mktw&dateid=38741%2E5136277662%2D858254656

|title=KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M

|first=Katherine

|last=Hunt

|accessdate=25 May 2025

|date=24 January 2006

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617235740/http://www.marketwatch.com:80/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B62C8724D%2DAE8A%2D4B5C%2D94C7%2D70171315C0A0%7D&dist=SignInArchive&param=archive&siteid=mktw&dateid=38741%2E5136277662%2D858254656

| archive-date=17 June 2006

|url-status=dead

}} A February news article comments that the "new programs" mentioned could include the Civilian Inmate Labor Program.{{cite web

|url=http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html

|title=Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'

|first=Nat

|last=Parry

|accessdate=9 March 2006

|year=2006

}} {{Unreliable source?|date=September 2009}} ICE has "joint federal facilities" with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.{{cite web

|url=http://www.ice.gov/graphics/dro/

|title=Office of Detention and Removal (DRO)

|accessdate=9 March 2006

|year=2006

}}

• Incarceration in the United States
• Labor camp
• Penal labor in the United States
• United States Department of the Army

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